Location: Catlettsburg, Kentucky

Status: Demolished

Kyova Mall, formerly known as Cedar Knoll Galleria, is located south of Ashland, Kentucky. Despite being planned for six department stores and over 100 inline retailers, it has three anchors and a nearly empty interior concourse.

Location: Ashland, Kentucky

Status: Renovated/Active

The Book Cadillac Hotel, named after a French fur trader, is located at the corner of State Street and Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Completed in December 1924, the hotel declined in the 1960’s after violent race riots swept the city and abandoned in 1984. It was restored in 2007-08 into the Westin Book-Cadillac Detroit.

Location: Detroit, Michigan

Status: Renovated

The Lafayette Building was located on a triangular lot bordered by West Lafayette Boulevard, Michigan Avenue and Shelby Street in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Constructed in 1923-24,the Lafayette was closed in 1997 and demolished in 2009-10.

Location: Mansfield, Ohio

Status: Active

The former Cleveland Aquarium, located in Gordon Park in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was a project that came to fruition by the Cleveland Aquarium Society, the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Status: Abandoned

The Cooley Hotel is a never completed hotel in Newcomerstown, Ohio. It used as a showroom and repair shop for farm machinery, office and manufacturing space for a canvas product company, and as a museum.

Location: East Cleveland, Ohio

Status: Abandoned

The Cincinnati, Ohio Friars Club is a non-profit social service organization that is dedicated to serving at-risk and disadvantaged children through organized sports, activity, nutrition and fitness. It’s Clifton Heights location was demolished in 2010 in favor of a student housing complex.

Location: Youngstown, Ohio

Status: Demolished

Randall Park Mall, an enclosed shopping center in the village of North Randall, Ohio southeast of Cleveland, boasted the motto, “Much More Than Everything.” After years of decline, the mall closed in March 2009. Demolition began in December 2014.

Location: Springfield, Ohio

Status: Abandoned

Location: Middletown, Ohio

Status: Active

The Variety Theatre, located in Cleveland, Ohio, was in operation from 1927 until 1984. It is listed as a Cleveland Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.6 After years of abandonment, the theater is being restored.

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Status: Being Renovated

The Vernon Manor is a former hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio with a reputation for being “the place to stay” for traveling musicians. It has since been renovated into offices for the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Status: Renovated

Westland Mall is a mostly abandoned shopping mall on the western fringes of Columbus, Ohio. One of four directionally-named shopping centers in the region, all but Southland were constructed by Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs.

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Status: Active/Abandoned

Location: Youngstown, Ohio

Status: Active

Century III Mall is an ailing shopping center near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1979, it was the third largest enclosed mall in the world at the time of its completion. It is named after the United State’s 1976 bicentennial.

Location: Sweet Springs, West Virginia

Status: Under Renovations

Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia

Status: Abandoned

Ashland

Ashland gasoline stations was a product of Ashland Oil & Refining Company, which began as a small outfit in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. Founded by Paul Blazer in 1924, the company expanded into road paving and construction operations, coal, oil exploration, motor oils via Valvoline and chemical manufacture and distribution. In the late 1990’s, Ashland formed a joint venture with Marathon Oil and eventually exited the oil refinining and marketing business in 2005.

Along KY 15 in Jackson, Ky.

Along US 52 in Manchester, Oh.

Along KY 486 in Webbville, Ky.

Gulf

Gulf Oil was an oil company from 1901 until it was merged with Standard Oil of California in 1984. At that point, Gulf stations were rebranded as Chevron in the United States. The Gulf brand has seen some revival thanks to a complex partnership formed in 1993 that had acquired the naming rights to Gulf Oil from Chevron in 1986.

Along US 58 in Ewing, Va.

Shell

Fisher’s Travel Camp

Fisher’s Travel Camp is located in Scott County, Kentucky along US 25. It featured a Shell gasoline station and a small motel. The land is still owned by the children and grandchildren of Tom and Hallie Fisher.

Texaco

Along US 58 in Ewing, Va.

Arvel, Kentucky General Store

Arvel, Kentucky General Store

Berry, Kentucky

Berry, Kentucky

Centerville, Kentucky

Davis, Kentucky

Davis, Kentucky

Elliston, Kentucky

Elliston, Kentucky

Elliston, Kentucky

Hudgin’s Mill along the Salt River in Mercer County, Ky. was constructed in 1831 on the Salt River. It became Bond’s Mill in 1850 and operated well into the 20th century.

Former general store on Bonds Mill Rd. in McBrayer, Ky.

An old general store in Valley View, Ky.

An old general store in Valley View, Ky.

An old general store in Valley View, Ky.

Glass Grocery on Burton Pike in Biddle, Scott County, Ky.

Former general store in Gravel Switch, Ky.

An old grocery store in Cannel City, Kentucky.

An old grocery store in Cannel City, Kentucky.

An old grocery store in Cannel City, Kentucky.

An old grocery store in Cannel City, Kentucky.

An old grocery store in Cannel City, Kentucky.

An old store along Sturgeon Creek south of Heidelberg, Kentucky

An old store along Sturgeon Creek south of Heidelberg, Kentucky. Chappell’s Milk, based out of Campbellsburg, boasted the slogan “It may be good and not be ours, But it can’t be ours and not be good!”

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